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About FVE
Working Groups & Working Parties
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Working Groups may be drawn up if the need arises and play a key role in FVE decision making. They are appointed to deal with a particular subject and during a defined period. Experts are selected from nominations received from FVE members on the basis of CV’s.
FVE strives to ensure that the composition of the group is balanced in terms of geographical coverage and working fields.
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Groups & Working Parties:
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Mandate:
This group, which originated from the meat inspection working group,
has as aim to provide a critical and independent analysis of the food
safety policy of the European Union and on broad food safety issues
of European-wide concern. In particular they deal with the implementation
and revision of the hygiene package, BSE/TSE control, zoonotic issues,
audits/inspections and meat inspection.
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- Margareta Widell (Sweden - Chair)
- Cornelia Rossi-Broy (Germany)
- Henning Knudsen ( Denmark)
- Thierry Chambon (France)
- Gundega Micule (Latvia)
- René Lesuis (The Netherlands)
- Roberto Balbo (Malta)
- Ragnhild Arnesen (Norway)
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Mandate:
The Working Group on Medicines was revised in the beginning of 2009.
Its tasks are all issues relating to medicines and the availabilty
of veterinary medicines in particular. Currently the MRL legislation
and the revision of the Medicines Directive (2001/82/EC) as well
as the use of antimicrobials and the extension of the list of products
for the treatment of (food producing) horses are amongst the most
important items the group works on.
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- Christophe Buhot (France - Chair)
- Johan van Tilburg (FECAVA)
- Henk Vaarkam (The Netherlands)
- Thierry Chambon (France)
- Peter Jones (UK)
- Rainer Schneichel (Germany)
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Mandate:
The European Commission plans to revise Directive 93/119/EC (DA,
DE, EL, EN, ES, FI, FR,
IT, NL, PT, SV) on the protection of
animals at the time of slaughter and killing and to present a legislative
proposal in 2007. They will use as base the EFSA report of October
2004 (EN) and OIE guidelines on slaughter adopted in May
2005. Opinions and information’s coming from stakeholders such as
FVE will also be used as a base.
This group was formed in April 2006 for a period of two years and
consists of two Working groups; group 1 which is the core group
and group 2 the consultative group.
Their position paper is published on the European Commissions'
website (link)
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- Robert Huey (UK - Chair)
- Mohan Ray (UK)
- Cornelia Rossi-Broy (Germany)
- Elisiv Tolo (Norway)
- Anders Forslid (Sweden)
- Karen Von Holleben (Germany)
- Romano Zilli (Italy)
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- Ann Lindhagen (Sweden)
- Patrick Talty (Ireland)
- Charlie Mason (UK)
- John Fletcher (UK)
- Sam Mansley(UK)
- Michael Gneist (Austria)
- Roger Vosters (Belgium)
- Christophe Buhot (France)
- Heike Taubert (Switzerland)
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Mandate:
Transporting live animals over long distance is already for decades
a great concern for animal welfare and still stays today. The working
group on transport greatly contributed to the Regulation No 1/2005
on the protection of animals during transport. It also contributed
to the abolishment of export refunds for live animals. After the adoption
of the Regulation the group continued to work on implementation issues
and currently already on the revision of the transport Regulation.
This long standing group was formed in 2001 and was revised in 2009.
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- Karen von Holleben (Germany)
- Padraig Kenny (Ireland)
- Giancarlo Belluzzi (Italy)
- Ludo Hellebrekers (Netherlands)
- Borut Zemljic (Slovenia)
- Madeleine Campbell (UK)
- Jorunn Vormeland Dalen (UEVH - observer)
- Joe Collins (FEEVA - observer)
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| Animal
Welfare Labelling |
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Mandate:
The mandate of the Animal Welfare Labelling working group is to assess
the issue of animal welfare labeling and try to develop a preliminary
discussion paper for FVE on this subject, mainly for EU legislators. |
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Group 2 (observers) |
- Cornelia Rossi-Broy (Germany - Chair)
- Richard Weilenmann (Swiss - co-Chair)
- Alain Schonbrodt (Belgium)
- Alberto Brizzi (Italy)
- Stefan Gunnarsson (Sweden)
- Andreas Steiger (Switzerland)
- Rens van Dobbenburg (Netherlands)
- Peter Jinman (UK)
- Craig Kirby (UK)
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- Rudy De Meester (Belgium)
- Giacomo Tolasi (Italy)
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Cloning |
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Mandate:
The mandate of the Animal Cloning working group is to draft a FVE
position paper on Animal Cloning taking into account possible effects
on animal health, animal welfare and public health, as well as the
current knowledge and expected developments in the field of animal
cloning in relation to the objectives of FVE.
The FVE review paper on cloning was adopted by the FVE General
Assembly in May 2009 (FVE/09/pos/001).
The group is currently inactive, but will be re-activated in case
that new issues with regards to cloning or other novel reproduction
techniques will arise.
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- David Morton (UK - Chair)
- Cesare Galli (Italy)
- Hiemke Knijn (Netherlands)
- Anna Duszewska (Poland)
- Constantinos Kyriakis (Greece)
- Eckhard Wolf (Germany)
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| Statutory
Bodies |
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Mandate:
The mandate of the Statutory Bodies Working Group is to assist FVE
in developing a harmonised position with regard to the regulation
of the veterinary profession in Europe and to other related international
recommendations (e.g. OIE). Further to act as a facilitator for
the exchange of information between national Competent Authorities,
in particular in relation to the international movement of veterinary
services, and to support Member States in the development of their
regulations on the provisions of veterinary services.
The group was formed in January 2010.
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- Stephen Ware (FVE Board – Chair)
- Christian Rondeau (FR)
- Donatella Loni (IT)
- Solfrid Åmdal (NO)
- Valerie Beatty (IE)
- Damyan Iliev (BG)
- Veronique Bellemain (EASVO, FR)
- Joost van Herten (NL)
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| ECOVE
- European Committee of Veterinary Education (former JEC) |
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Mandate:
For many years, EAEVE together with FVE runs evaluation visits of
veterinary teaching establishments. The objective of the Evaluation
system is to help ensure a comparable level of veterinary training
in Europe, as laid down by Directive 2005/36/EC (DA, DE,
EL, EN, ES, FI, FR, IT,
NL, PT, SV). To this end, the EAEVE and FVE arranges
for teams of veterinary experts to carry out evaluation visits to
veterinary schools and faculties in Europe.
After the visit, reports are submitted to the European Committee of
Veterinary Education (ECOVE), consisting of members of EAEVE and FVE,
who will then formally adopt the report. If a school has no category
one deficiencies it can apply to be put on the "List of visited
and approved faculties" (The positive list).
The Committees shall be appointed for a two-years term and may be
re-appointed no more than twice. Not all members shall be changed
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- Borut Zemljic (Slovenia) - FVE
- Tjeerd Jorna (The Netherlands) - FVE
- John Williams (UK) – FVE
- Marcel Wanner (Switzerland) – EAEVE/Chair
- Stefano Romagnoli (Italy) – EAEVE
- Petr Horin (Czech Republic) – EAEVE
- Patrick Bénard (France) - EAEVE
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Mandate:
The three organisations the “European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education” (EAEVE), the “European Board for Veterinary Specialisation” (EBVS) and FVE all have a strong interest in the training of veterinarians in Europe. To coordinate their goals and actions, the boards of directors and executive committees of the three organisations meet regularly. For this purpose, 2 joint committees were developed. The first one is the Joint Education Committee (see above) which looks upon the evaluation reports. The second one, the European Coordinating Committee for Veterinary Training (previously Joint Policy Committee) has a more political remit; it can propose policies of joint interest, which relate to recognition of the professional - especially professional qualification, continuing development and specialisation, - to the three boards.
The Committees shall be appointed for a two-years term and may be re- appointed no more than twice. Not all members shall be changed at the same time.
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- Walter Winding (Austria – FVE President)
- Karin Ostensson (Sweden – FVE)
- Rémi Gellé/Christophe Buhot (UEVP)
- Marcel Wanner (Switzerland – EAEVE President)
- Stefano Romagnoli (Italy - EAEVE)
- Ljiljana Pinter (Croatia - EAEVE)
- Riitta-Mari Tulamo (Finland - EBVS)
- Jens Arnberg (Denmark - EBVS)
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